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The
Tian Mingjian incident was an act of spree killing that occurred on September 20,
1994 in Beijing, China, when a People's Liberation Army officer
First Lieutenant Tian Mingjian
(chin.: 田明建) killed and injured several people at his military base
in Tongxian County and afterwards
drove towards Jianguomen, where he continued his shooting spree and
indiscriminately fired at people in the streets.Dozens
were killed or wounded, including an Iranian diplomat and
his son who was driving nearby before Lt. Tian was finally
shot dead by a police sniper.

Being reprimanded after a quarrel with superiors, Lt. Tian Ming
Jian, 31, armed himself with a type 81 assault rifle and began
shooting, killing five soldiers and officers, including the
Communist Partypolitical commissar of the camp, and
injured at least ten more, before he fled the military base in
Tongxian County. While his fellow
soldiers were ordered to change their uniforms, in order not to
disturb the public when they are searching for the deserter, Tian
hijacked a jeep and headed towards Beijing.
Arriving
in Tiananmen
Square at 7:20am he jumped out, started shooting people at
random and riddled a passing bus with bullets.17 people were killed,
among them Iranian diplomat
Yousef Mohammadi Pishknari and his son.Dozens were injured on
his trail towards Jianguomen, while police desperatly tried to apprehend
him. Eventually Lt. Tian was besieged at Yabao Road and
heavy police fire forced him to flee into a dead end, where he was
killed by a sniper.